Assessing the internal threat from rogue system administrators and other IT staff to industry and government organisations may become easier thanks to a new research project run by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and funded by CA Labs and the Australian Research Council (ARC).

While the costs of power and cooling were still proving troublesome for data centre operators, the aging nature of their facilities was an added driver for the current raft of data centre overhauls, a new IDC study has found.

Web hosting provider, Netregistry, has admitted that some customers of Distribute.IT's subsidiary, Click 'n Go, who were acquired recently have decided to look around for other providers.

An investigation by the Acting NSW Privacy Commissioner, John McAteer, into the University of Sydney's security breach in January has found that the institution failed to meet its obligations to students under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection (PPIP) Act of 1998 due to a series of security blunders.

Hewlett Packard (HP) Australia is gunning for public sector data in a big way with the launch of its Government Secure Cloud Services.

Telstra has made an aggressive play for viewers in the resources sector, which includes mining and oil, with its Smart Camp entertainment IP services.

The annual US hacker conference, DefCon, has been expanded this year to include the next generation of white hat hackers.

As Distribute.IT's server compromise and subsequent acquisition by Netregistry Group this week has shown, companies who are the subject of a hack attack can be taken out of business permanently. The scale of the Distribute.IT disaster raises issues both for customers who use hosting providers to store sensitive business information and for the providers themselves.

The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has confirmed a replacement chief executive officer following the impeding retirement of Peter Coroneos on 30 June after 13 years with the association.

New South Wales-based hosting provider Netregistry Group has acquired Distribute.IT's customers and assets for an undisclosed sum.

The Gillard Government's decision to set up legislative framework to allow Australia to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty was a good step forward but privacy and civil liberty concerns need to be taken into account, according to a security expert

Communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, yesterday told an IBM Smart Government conference in Canberra that research by his department indicates people prefer to access government services online.

Ethical hacker company, Pure Hacking, has developed a strategic security practice designed to seek out vulnerabilities in companies before black hat hackers find them.

Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.

The worst fears of security professionals have been realised with a hacker collective designed to target banks confirmed by LulzSec and Anonymous.